Use "inscrutable" in a sentence

1. The Inspector is looking as inscrutable as ever, his thought processes obviously working overtime

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2. ’ I look her straight in the eye with my most inscrutable expression, ‘After all, he’s going to be at the wedding

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3. It became rapidly clear to Tom that the inscrutable lady had

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4. He looked to Jhordel, but her face remained as inscrutable as ever

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5. In this manner, a society will often settle on some inscrutable ―mean‖ or center point, conceded by popular opinion, that, however lacking the essential requirements of Truth, provides credible examples for others to follow

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6. Doctor Chickadee remained silent, looking inscrutable over the top of his note pad, with his brown, watery and wishy-washy eyes looking sort of skeptical

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7. How wonderful it would be, we both agreed, were medical science able to discover remedies for ―incurable‖ diseases like Alzheimer‘s, ALS, Paralysis and inscrutable forms of Cancer that continue to confound medical authorities

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8. He passed me and opened the door, his face inscrutable

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9. And all the time he was watching me, his expression hooded and inscrutable, and I couldn’t look away

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10. Pale, inscrutable, stark in the valley below

11. “To engage in idle speculation is the mark of a free man,” Brendan said and it merely smiled its inscrutable little smile

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12. “Unusual” Ryato had said in a smile and then Alaric had added “beautiful” with the same inscrutable smile

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13. She could be inscrutable

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14. contained, as only the inscrutable Xen could be

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15. His look was inscrutable

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16. Only when he enters the kingdom of heaven through the grace of our lord Jesus Christ, will man find peace! Thus reconciled to his god’s inscrutable ways, Ian apologised and promised to do something to stem this slither to depravity

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17. Inscrutable didn’t even begin to describe his interrogator’s face as he sorted through a sheaf of papers and drew one to the top, stabbing at it with his finger

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18. beyond all description, yet with a mien of omniscient, inscrutable majesty,

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19. ………he was going to nail the inscrutable Oriental!!………mind you, there was another Oriental or should we say Eurasian that he wouldn’t mind nailing…

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20. He came on with his sword lifted, and towered like a threat of death over the inscrutable shape

21. A glance back showed him Zelata standing in the door of her hut, inscrutable as ever, the great wolf beside her

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22. The countenance was that of a bearded man, inscrutable, with a calm inhuman beauty

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23. Xaltotun turned his inscrutable gaze upon the king

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24. Amalric looked at Xaltotun, inscrutable and alien in the light of the flaring torches

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25. They harkened with keen dark eyes and inscrutable countenances, and they went their ways without comment, and heeded with flattering intentness his instructions as to the working of iron, and kindred arts

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26. She then waited anxiously for Lucifer’s reaction to her response as the Master of Hell stared at her with an inscrutable expression on his face

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27. I was downcast and sad; I had no idea to guess anything inscrutable

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28. There was no way to read his reaction to what he said; Jason had reverted back to inscrutable billionaire mode

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29. It transpired on my further questioning that his time pressure required a start on the project, which the inscrutable Chinese had recognised and used to their advantage

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30. lessness, and also that of meritorious action, for the ways of action are (So) inscrutable

31. ” Again The Voice was guileless and not seeking to be inscrutable

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32. Is this now the willing of her how in the dreams of her inscrutable

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33. Our very familiarity with this law has blinded us to its majesty; we lightly assign it as an explanation for the most inscrutable mysteries, because it is such an absolutely necessary corollary to all we conceive of life or nature, without recognizing that it itself is beyond all comprehension

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34. Bullivant and the girls merely constituted one of its many inscrutable ends

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35. The ways of so-called Providence were quite criminally inscrutable, she thought, in stark defiance of what a vicar's wife should think; but then she was greatly goaded

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36. weep or at the very least swear, with an inscrutable

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37. “Human suffering will always be an inscrutable mystery, but God works in mysterious ways

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38. In this remarkable play Benavente is well-nigh as inscrutable

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39. ' He gave Rafferty an inscrutable glance

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40. with an inscrutable look and nodded her head

41. The blank, faceless head betrayed nothing, inscrutable

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42. It had been like this since the beginning of time itself: a windowless white cube flooded with a dead fluorescent light that percolated into every crevice of his being, Truscott with his cheerless grins and endless questions, with occa¬sional spurts of bile from Meadows, interjected like venomous punctuation – and all under the inscrutable gaze of the guardian of the door

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43. Is there not reason to fear that men have reached in our time utterly perverted notions of the Great Power which is behind Nature? The Infinite Spirit works by His inscrutable will in material forces and forms

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44. What else is this Vaticanism, which sits like a nightmare on the breast of slumbering Christendom, but the perfection of unreason and spiritual selfishness, the result of an overpowering fear of an eternal hell? Well sing the angels in the Apocalypse at the downfall of 'Babylon,’ if by Babylon be symbolized that religion which is the work of theologians to whom 'the heart of a Husband and a Father is,’ in the language of Sir James Stephen, 'an inscrutable mystery;’ and who, by an enforced celibacy, have cut off the teachers of the people, as well as the masters of the confessional, from personal experience in those two chief revelations of God’s loving Nature to mankind

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45. Vampires, inscrutable librarians, astral projection

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46. To this Don Quixote made answer, "Senora, your highness must know that everything or almost everything that happens me transcends the ordinary limits of what happens to other knights-errant; whether it be that it is directed by the inscrutable will of destiny, or by the malice of some jealous enchanter

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47. Do thou, therefore, O Rhadamanthus, who sittest in judgment with me in the murky caverns of Dis, as thou knowest all that the inscrutable fates have decreed touching the resuscitation of this damsel, announce and declare it at once, that the happiness we look forward to from her restoration be no longer deferred

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48. She stood with her hands behind her back, looking up at him in a heavy, inscrutable fashion

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49. No! I wasn't the subject of his hate because he wasn't even looking at me; his eyes stayed stubbornly focused on that inscrutable point of the horizon

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50. ! How inscrutable are the ways of providence—for what great and mysterious purpose has it pleased heaven to abase the man once so elevated, and raise up him who was so abased?"

51. " Franz did not doubt that these plans were the same concerning which the count had dropped a few words in the grotto of Monte Cristo, and while the Count was speaking the young man watched him closely, hoping to read something of his purpose in his face, but his countenance was inscrutable especially when, as in the present case, it was veiled in a sphinx-like smile

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52. " Bertuccio hid his face in his hands as he uttered these words, while Monte Cristo fixed on him a look of inscrutable meaning

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53. But Arthur Dimmesdale! Were such a man once more to fall, what plea could be urged in extenuation of his crime? None; unless it avail him somewhat, that he was broken down by long and exquisite suffering; that his mind was darkened and confused by the very remorse which harrowed it; that, between fleeing as an avowed criminal, and remaining as a hypocrite, conscience might find it hard to strike the balance; that it was human to avoid the peril of death and infamy, and the inscrutable machinations of an enemy; that, finally, to this poor pilgrim, on his dreary and desert path, faint, sick, miserable, there appeared a glimpse of human affection and sympathy, a new life, and a true one, in exchange for the heavy doom which he was now expiating

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54. Now I knew that under ordinary conditions he no longer craved for this artificial stimulus, but I was well aware that the fiend was not dead, but sleeping; and I have known that the sleep was a light one and the waking near when in periods of idleness I have seen the drawn look upon Holmes's ascetic face, and the brooding of his deep-set and inscrutable eyes

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55. She glanced at Puller, her features inscrutable

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56. Puller did his best to keep his features inscrutable at this announcement, though he found it hard

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57. The ways of human progress are inscrutable, and if the fate of the country is in the hand of Montero, we ought ' —

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58. had noted the blank inscrutable expression when Melanie talked at length and with pride of Ashley and his promotion

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59. Then I said, “I could be inscrutable, too, you know

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60. He stares at me, his face impassive, completely inscrutable

61. If he would only say something, anything! She felt her cheeks He looked at her oddly, still inscrutable and as she hurried on she could not tell if he getting hot

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62. She was silent while she stripped off Mammy, who was waiting just inside the door, gave her an inscrutable look and

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63. It’s as if a great inscrutable force, the higher power to whom he’s been addressing himself these last few weeks, has steered him back to where everything started, and now he badly needs it to tell him what to do

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64. It was a sharp trap for the inscrutable! He couldn't play any longer at innocence; so how the deuce would he get out of it? There beat in me indeed, with the passionate throb of this question an equal dumb appeal as to how the deuce I should

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65. In the past he had never been able to find that great inscrutable infinite something

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66. Now I knew that under ordinary conditions he no longer craved for this artificial stimulus, but I was well aware that the fiend was not dead but sleeping, and I have known that the sleep was a light one and the waking near when in periods of idleness I have seen the drawn look upon Holmes's ascetic face, and the brooding of his deep-set and inscrutable eyes

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67. He tasks me; he heaps me; I see in him outrageous strength, with an inscrutable malice sinewing it

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68. That inscrutable thing is chiefly what I hate; and be the white whale agent, or be the white whale principal, I will wreak that hate upon him

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69. But what it was that inscrutable Ahab said to that tiger-yellow crew of his—these were words best omitted here; for you live under the blessed light of the evangelical land

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70. Close to our bows, strange forms in the water darted hither and thither before us; while thick in our rear flew the inscrutable sea-ravens

71. But did you deeply scan him in his more secret confidential hours; when he thought no glance but one was on him; then you would have seen that even as Ahab's eyes so awed the crew's, the inscrutable Parsee's glance awed his; or somehow, at least, in some wild way, at times affected it

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72. But who could expect a melancholy, inscrutable hero to see the humorous side of things? It would be flatly unreasonable

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73. This is so, and must always be so; and the purposes of the Divine Creator are at once good and inscrutable, as also is Fate, which is one with Him

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74. ‘My son,’ said the priest evasively, ‘all things are accomplished in accordance with the inscrutable decrees of Providence, and what seems a misfortune sometimes leads to extraordinary, though unapparent, benefits

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75. Mariette and a lady whom he did not know, with a red cape and a big, heavy head-dress, were in the box, and two men also, Mariette’s husband, the General, a tall, handsome man with a severe, inscrutable countenance, a Roman nose, and a uniform padded round the chest, and a fair man, with a bit of shaved chin between pompous whiskers

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76. The sun did not stop shining when he looked, neither did the fountain cease playing, and the Eastern sky remained cloudless and blue as always; but the man who fell under his inscrutable gaze could no longer feel the sun, nor hear the fountain, nor recognise his native sky

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77. Personally I look upon the disappearance of these arms as an all- wise intervention of Providence, which sets its own inscrutable wisdom up against the wisdom which we would otherwise have heard from the lips of my venerable friend Solling

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78. Will He who is in heaven be silent also, then must I bow to His inscrutable will

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